Year: 2006

Brian’s post What’s in a Code Name? provides some explanation behind the Orcas and Rosario code names. You won’t hear the word “Rosario” normally, and here’s a bit on why. What’s in a Code Name? Mary Jo Foley is writing about one Microsoft code name per day on her blog. I think it’s pretty cool and…

If you’ve ever wanted to add your own message in the “Build Steps” section of the detailed build report, Aaron Hallberg provides a custom task to do it. Aaron, along with the rest of the team, had been focused on finishing up the continuous integration feature for Team Build. I’m happy to say that we…

Many customers have expressed their disappointment with the fact that test lists (.vsmdi files) can only be created and managed in VSTS for Testers or VSTS Suite, leaving VSTS for Developers users in a bind. There is now an add-in from Ekobit that solves this problem! Check it out! Here’s the announcement on Ognjen Bajic’s…

Brian Keller, technical evangelist for VSTS, is coming to the North Carolina office to interview Brian Harry and folks from each of the feature areas developed here (I’ll be in the Team Build segment). Submit Your Questions for the Upcoming Channel 9 Interviews of the Team Foundation Server Team On Dec. 14 & 15 I will be filming…

Brian Harry posted a TFS roadmap. I’d like to expand on the portion that describes the features specific to Team Build. Keep in mind that these features can change before Orcas ships, so there are no guarantees that it will match what’s described below. Build Support multi-threaded builds with the new MSBuild. Continuous Integration –…

Congratulations to the TeamPrise team for shipping version 2.0! Martin Woodward posts about it and includes screenshots. Teamprise Turns 2.0 Tuesday marked the beginning of my second year with Teamprise and today I’m very happy to report that we have just released Teamprise 2.0. To celebrate I thought I’d give you a quick run through…

Brian Harry has written a post about an SD Times article about TFS. Since he is the head of Team Foundation, his posts tend to have interesting tidbits in them, such as the following. It talks about the lack of continuous integration and the ability to schedule builds. It also talks about lack of a…

Faisal Mohamood, a program manager on the MSBuild team, has written a pair of posts about the “multi-targeting” feature in the Orcas version of MSBuild. Multi-targeting allows you to build your code against the .NET 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 frameworks, according to your requirements. This is great because it allows folks to have some projects…

Microsoft TechNet put them all in one convenient download. Sysinternals Suite Published: November 1, 2006 Introduction The entire set of Sysinternals Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains all the individual tools and help files. Download SysinternalsSuite (8 MB) tags: tools, sysinternals

This question came up on the internal discussion alias. Tom Marsh, development lead on VSTS for Testers, responded saying, “the console output is saved with the unit test results. If you download the results and open them in the IDE, you will see the console output in the results view for the test that created…

I’ve updated the TestToolsTask that supports using test containers, in addition to the test metadata files supported by v1. Unfortunately, the task I posted originally didn’t result in builds being marked as failed when the tests had errors. I missed that fact in my testing. The reason for the problem is that the v1 Team Build logger looks…

Brian Harry would like your feedback on how and when we do CTPs. Be sure to post comments on his blog! Feedback on VS Community Technology Previews (CTPs) We recently had an internal email thread with some people on our advisory councils giving us feedback on our CTP process. There was some interesting and somewhat…

[UPDATE 6/16/2010] The VSTS 2008 release added support for test containers (/testcontainer) in the product, and the 2010 release added support for test categories. This post now only applies to TFS 2005. Since the beginning, running tests in Team Build (or MSBuild in general) has meant having to use .vsmdi files to specify the tests to…

Brian Harry talks about the documentation on how to move your TFS SharePoint installation to a different server. It’s important to note that he calls this out as not being a trivial undertaking, so you’ll want to be extremely cautious. Moving your TFS SharePoint site We’ve gotten tons of requests since we shipped TFS v1.0…

One important aspect of Continuous Integration is getting notification that the build is broken. One common way is via a desktop notification from an application like TfsAlert that listens for events (or polls if there isn’t a TFS-style event notification mechanism). Ideally, the build or unit test break would be noticed as soon as it happens,…

Clark Sell has created a home on CodePlex for a useful desktop notification tool called TfsAlert. TfsAlert is a .Net 3.0 smart client which monitors for user selected TFS events and will display a balloon window in the Windows TaskBar Notification Area. It is built on top of WCF where you can subscribe to any TFS…

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what’s new in the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP). November 8, 200610:00 – 11:00 A.M. Pacific TimeAdditional Time Zones Add to Calendar

This was released today. Here’s the announcement from the GotDotNet workspace. ANNOUNCING THE VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM – PROJECT SERVER CONNECTOR! We are pleased to announce general availability of the Project Server 2003 – Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2005 Connector application. The Connector can be downloaded here: http://www.avanadeadvisor.com/TFS-ProjectServerConnector.zip. The Connector is largely based on the…